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craft he be shalbe founde eny more in the. and the sounde off a myll shalbe herde no more in the and the voyce of the bryde grome and of the bryde, shalbe herde no more in the: for thy marchauntes were the grett men of the erth. And with thyne inchantment were deceaved all nacions: and in her was founde the bloude of the prophettes, and of the saynctes, and off all that were slayne apon the erth.

The rir. Chapter.

AND after that I herde the voyce off moche people in heven sayinge: Alleluia. Helth and glory and honour and power be vnto oure lorde god for true and ryghteous are his iudgmentes/ for he hath iudged the grett whore, which did corrupt the erth with her fornicacion, and hath avenged the bloud of his servauntes of her hond. And agayne they said: Alleluya. And smoke rose vppe for ever more. And the xxiiij. seniours, and the iiij. bestes fell doune, and worshypped god that sate on the seate sayinge: Amen Alleluya. And a voyce cam out of the seate/ saying: prayse oure lorde god all ye that are his servauntes/ and ye that feare hym both smale and grett.

And I herde the voyce off moche people, even as the voyce off many waters, and as the voyce off stronge thondrynges, sayinge : Alleluya for god omnipotent hath raigned. Let vs be glad and reioyce and geve honour to hym: for the mariage off the lambe is come and hys wyffe made her sylfe reddy. And to her was graunted that she shulde be arayed with pure and goodly raynes. For the raynes is the rightewesnes off saynctes. And he sayde vnto me: happy are they which are called vnto the Lambes supper. And he sayde vnto me: these are the true sayinges off God. And I fell at his fete to worshyppe him. And he sayde vnto me: se thou do hit not. For I am thy felowe servaunt and one off thy brethern, and off them thatt have the testimony off Jesus. Worshyppe God. For the testymony off Jesus ys the sprete off prophesy. And I sawe heven open and beholde a whyte horsse: and he that satt apon hym was fayhtfull and true and in ryghtewesnes dyd iudge and make battayle. His eyes were as a flame off fyre: and on his heed were many crounes and he had a name written, that noman knewe butt hym sylfe. And he was clothed with a vesture dept in bloud/ and hys name ys called the worde off God. And the warriers which were in heven, folowed hym apon whyte horses/ clothed with whyte and pure raynes: and out off hys mouthe went out

a sharppe swerde, that with hyt he shulde smyte the hethen. And he shall rule them with a rodde off yeron and he trode the wynefatt off fearsnes and wrath off almyghty god. And hath on his vesture and on his thygh: kynge of kynges, and lord of lordes.

And I sawe an angell stonde in the sunne, and he cryed with a lowde voyce, sayinge to all the fowles that flye by the myddes of heven come and gaddre youre selves to gedder vnto the supper off the gret god that ye may eate the flesshe off kynges/ and off hye captaynes, and the flesshe of myghty men and the flesshe off horses, and off them thatt sytt on them, and the flesshe of all free men and bond men, and of smale and gret. And I sawe the beste. and the kynges of the erth, and their warriers gaddred to gedder to make battayle agaynste hym that satt on the horsse and agaynste his sowdiers.

And the best was taken and with hym thatt falce prophett that wroght myracles before hym/ with which he desceaved them that receaved the beestes marke, and them that worshypped hys ymmage. These bothe were cast into a ponde off fyre burnynge with brymstone: and the remnaunte were slayne with the swearde of hym that satt apon the horsse, which swearde proceded out off his mouthe, and all the foules were fulfilled with their fleshe.

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The Fr. Chapter.

ND I sawe an angell come doune from heven havynge the kaye off the bottomlesse pytt/ and a grett chayne in hys honde. And he toke the dragon that olde serpent which is the devyll and satanas and he bounde him a thousand yeares: and cast hym into the bottomlesse pitt, and he bounde hym/ and set a seale on hym, that he shulde desceve the people no moare tyll the м. yeares were fulfylled. And after that he muste be lowsed for a lytell season.

And I sawe seattes and the satt apon them, and iudgment was geven vnto them: and I sawe the soules off them thatt were behedded for the wytnes off Jesu and for the word off God: which had not worshypped the best nether his ymage, nether had taken his marke apon their forheddes or on their hondes: and they lyved, and reygned with Christ a M. yere but the wother off the deed men lyved not agayne, vntyll the м. yere were fynisshed. This is that fyrst resurreccion. Blessed and holy is he thatt hath parte in the fyrst resurreccion. For on suche

shall the seconde deeth have no power for they shalbe the prestes off God and off Christ, and shall raigne with hym a м. yere.

And when the M. yere are expiered Satan shalbe lowsed out off hys preson and shall goo oute to deceave the people which are in the foure quarters of the erth gog and Magog, to gadder them to gedder to battayle whose nombre is as the sonde off the see and they went vppe on the playne off the erth and compased the tentes off the saynctes about and the beloved cite. And fyre cam doune from God out off heven and devoured them and the devyll that desceaved them was cast into a lake off fyre and brymstone, where the beest and the falce prophett were and shalbe tormented daye and nyght for ever more.

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And I sawe a grett whyte seate and hym that sate on hit from whose face fleed awaye both the erth and heven and their place was no more founde. And I sawe the deed both grett and smale stonde before God: And the bokes were opened and another boke was opened, which is the boke of lyfe, and the deed were judged of thoo thynges which were wrytten in the bokes accordinge to their dedes: and the see gave vppe her deed which were in her, and deth and hell delyvered vppe the deed which were in them: and they were iudged every man accordinge to his dedes. And deth and hell were cast into the lake of fyre. this is that second deeth. And whosoever was nott founde written in the boke off lyfe, was cast into the lake off fyre.

The rri. Chapter.

AND I sawe a newe heven, and a newe erth. For the fyrst

heven and the fyrst erth were vanysshed awaye, and there was no more see. And I Jhon sawe that holy cite newe Jerusalem come doune from God oute off heven prepard as a bryde garnysshed for hyr husband. And I herde agrett voyce from the trone saynge: be holde the tabernacle off God is with men / and he wyll dwell with them. And they shalbe his people, and God hym sylffe shalbe with them and be their god. And God shall wyppe awaye all teares from their eyes. And there shalbe nomore deeth nether sorowe nether cryinge nether shall there be eny more payne, for the olde thynges are gone. And he that sate apon the seate/ sayde: Behold I make all thynges newe. And he sayde vnto me: wryte, for these wordes ar faygthfull and true.

And he sayde vnto me: hit is done. I am Alpha and Omega,

the begynynge, and the ende. I will geve to hym that is a thyrst of the well of the water of lyfe fre. He that overcommeth shall inheret all thynges, and I wyll be his God, and he shalbe my sonne. But the fearfull and vnbelevynge, and the abhominable, and murdres and whormongers and sorceres, and ydolatrers and all lyars shall have their parte in the lake which burnyth with fyre and brymstone, which is the seconde deth.

And there cam vnto me one the vij. angels which had the vij. vyalls full of the vij. laste plages: and talked with me sayinge: come hydder I will shewe the the bryde the lambes wyfe. And he caryed me awaye in the sprete to a grett and an hye mountayne and he shewed me the grett cite/ holy Jerusalem descendinge out off heven from God, havynge the brightnes off God. And her shynynge was lyke vnto a stone moste precious/ even a Jaspar cleare as cristall: and had walles grett and hye and had xij gattes, and att the gattes xij angels: and names wrytten, which are the xij trybes of Israell: on the est parte iij gatis and on the north syd iij gates and to wardes the south iij gates and from the west iij gates: and the wall off the cite had xij foundacions and in them the names off the lambes .xij. Apostles.

And he that talked with me had a golden rede to measur the cite with all and the gates theroff and the wall ther off. And the cite was bylt iiij. square and the length was as large as the bredth of hitt, and he measured the cite with the rede .xij M. fur longes and the lenght and the breth and the heyght off hit were equall. And he measured the wall therof. an exliiij. cubittes: the measure that the angell had was after the measur that man vseth. And the byldinge of the wall of hit was of iaspar. And the cite was pure gold lyke vnto cleare glasse, and the foundacions off the wall of the cite was garnisshed with all maner off precious stones. The fyrste foundacion was iaspar, the seconde saphyre the thyrde a calcedony the fourth an emeralde: the fift sardonix: the sixt sardeos: the sevente crysolite the ayghte berall: the nynthe a topas: the tenthe a crysoprasos: the eleventhe a iacyncte the twelfe an amatist.

The xij gattes were xij pearles every gate was of one pearle, and the strete of the cite was pure golde as thorowe shynynge glasse. And there was no temple therin. For the lord god allmyghty and the lambe are the temple of hit And the cite hath no nede of the sunne nether of the mone to lyghten hit. For the bryghtnes off God dyd light hitt: and the lambe was the light off hit. And the people which are saved shall walke

in the light off hit: and the kynges off the erth shall brynge their glory vnto hit. And the gattes off hit are nott shutt by daye. For there shalbe no nyght there. And there shall entre into hit none vnclene thinge: nether what soever worketh abhominacion or maketh lyes: but they only which are wrytten in the lambes boke off lyfe.

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The rrij. Chapter.

ND he shewed me a pure ryver off water off lyfe pure as cristall: procedynge oute of the seate off God and off the lambe. In the myddes off the strete off hit, and off ether syde off the ryver was there wode off lyfe: which bare xij manner off frutes and gave frute ever moneth and the leves off the wodde served to heale the people with all. And there shalbe no more cursse but the seate of god and the lambe shalbe in hit: and his servauntes shall serve hym: And shall se his face and his name shalbe in their for heddes. Ande there shall be no moare nyghte there and they nede no candle, nether light off the sunne for the lorde God geveth them light, and they shall raynge for evermore.

And he sayde vnto me: these sayinges are fayghtfull, and true. And the lorde god of saynctes and prophettes sentt his angell to shewe vnto his servauntes, the thynges wich muste shortly be fulfylled. Beholde I come shortly. Happy is he that kepeth the sayinge of the prophesy off this boke. I am Jhon/ which sawe these thynges and herde them. And when I had herde and sene, I fell doune to worshippe before the fete of the angell which shewed me these thynges. And he sayd vnto me: se thou do hit not for I am thy felowe servaunt and the felowe servaunt of thy brethren the prophettes and of them which kepe the sayinges off this boke. But worshippe God.

And he sayde vnto me: seale nott the sayinges off prophesy off this boke. For the tyme is at honde. He that doeth evle lett hym do evle still: and he which is fylthy lett hym be fylthy still and he that is righteous, lett hym be more righteous: and he that is holy lett hym be more holy. And beholde I come shortly and my rewarde with me, to geve every man acordinge as his dedes shalbe. I am Alpha and Omega, the begynnynge and the end, the fyrst and the last. Blessed are they that do hys commaundmentes/ that their power maye be in the tree off lyfe and maye entre in thorowe the gates into the cite. For with out shalbe dogges and inchanters and whormongers, and

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